Grafton Police said former pharmacist Aurora Health’s lawyer was arrested on suspicion of reckless danger, adulterating a prescription drug and damaging property. The department said in a press release that it is in prison. Police have not identified the pharmacist, saying he has not yet been officially charged.
His motive remains unclear. Police said detectives believe they know the pampered doses will be useless, and people who receive them would mistakenly believe they were vaccinated when they did not.
Aurora’s attorney, the group’s chief medical officer, Jeff Bahr, told reporters during a teleconference Thursday afternoon that the pharmacist deliberately removed 57 vials containing hundreds of doses of Modern vaccine from refrigeration at a Grafton medical center. overnight on December 24th on December 25th he returned them, then left them out again on the night of December 25th until Saturday. The vials contained enough doses to inoculate 570 people.
A pharmacy technician found the bottles outside the refrigerator on Saturday morning. Bahr said the pharmacist initially said he removed the vaccine to access other items in the refrigerator and that he had mistakenly failed to replace it.
The Modern vaccine is still viable for 12 hours outside of refrigeration, so workers used the vaccine to inoculate 57 people before throwing away the rest. Police said the doses were between $ 8,000 and $ 11,000.
Bahr said health system officials became more suspicious of the pharmacist as they analyzed the incident. After several interviews, the pharmacist admitted on Wednesday that he deliberately removed the vaccine and left it out overnight on December 24 on December 25, returned it to the refrigerator at some point and then took it out again overnight between December 25 and 26. December.
Bahr said that means the doses people received on Saturday are almost useless. The modern told Aurora that there are no safety issues, but the system monitors them closely, he said.
Bahr declined to comment on the pharmacist’s reason.
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